Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August ...

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

As the temperature dropped, the vast night sky became a stage for distant planets and the steady glow of thousands of stars.

Planets orbiting red dwarf stars may have a harder time hanging on to the conditions needed for life to arise and survive than previously thought, data from NASA's dead space telescope GALEX reveals.

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.